Zigzagiceras

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Zigzagiceras
Temporal range: Bathonian [1]
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Zigzagiceras

d'Orbigny, 1846
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  • Zigzagiceras zigzag

Zigzagiceras is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the order Ammonoidea, that lived during the upper Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic. [1] They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. [2]

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References

Notes
  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database" . Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. "Paleobiology Database - Zigzagiceras" . Retrieved 17 December 2021.